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Immigrants are key to overcoming uncertainty and taking risks.
Stephanie Tam 20, independent writer, researcher, and producer who has worked for Freakonomics Radio, Radiolab, and First Look Media, 1-27-2020, "How Immigrants Drive Entrepreneurship and Innovation," https://behavioralscientist.org/how-immigrants-drive-entrepreneurship-invention-innovation/
Tracing causal mechanisms is hardly clean-cut, but Pekkala Kerr offered several explanations for these differences. Immigrants are, by definition, individuals who have taken a significant risk in leaving their home country to seek better opportunities abroad. This kind of act is itself an entrepreneurial endeavor, and as a group they appear to be more inclined to calculated risk-taking.
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